Fox's new leader is a surprise: AMC's Charlie Collier to lead Fox as it becomes New

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Collier, the president and general manager of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios, “will oversee the Fox Broadcasting Network and lead the Company’s entertainment programming strategy across live, scripted and non-scripted content,” Fox chief executive Lachlan Murdoch said in a companywide statement. The job was expected to go to to Gary Newman, who has been running Fox with Dana Walden, who is headed to Disney. But Collier's selection makes sense: "it gives Fox a fresh pair of eyes to strategize its new space in the entertainment ecosystem," says Michael Schneider, adding: "Collier’s background is mostly in cable, and in particular smaller, scrappier networks like AMC, SundanceTV, Oxygen and A&E Networks. That experience — including how to program, promote, and sell with a smaller infrastructure — could serve him and Fox well as the network undergoes its own change."